Spanning approximately 220,000 light-years across, the Andromeda Galaxy is the largest galaxy of the Local Group, which also ...

To mark the 35th anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope, Space.com looks at some of the most scientifically significant images that have emerged from the observatory's lens.

This Hubble image of a crowded star field in the disk of the Andromeda galaxy shows that stars of different ages can be distinguished from one another on basis of temperature (as indicated by ...

The Andromeda Galaxy's family of dwarfs are an enigma. First it was the unusual flat plane around which more than half of ...

For humans, the most important star in the universe is our sun. The second-most important star is nestled inside the ...

The Hubble Deep Field, shown here, is a patch of sky in the constellation of Ursa Major the Great Bear. It was originally chosen because it was an empty and apparently blank patch of sky - so no ...

It was the deepest portrait of the universe ever taken at the time. The snapshot, dubbed the Hubble Deep Field contained thousands of nearby and distant galaxies. The image represents only a tiny ...

The other large galaxies are the Andromeda Galaxy ... Galaxies observed in the Hubble Deep Field image The image above is from the Hubble Deep Field, a special observation made with the Hubble ...

Our deepest look into space so far is the 10-day exposure by this telescope, called the Hubble Deep Field, that is celebrated in the first of the three "Mysteries of Deep Space" programs.

This is the largest photomosaic ever assembled from Hubble Space Telescope observations. It is a panoramic view of the neighboring Andromeda galaxy, located 2.5 million light-years away.

He outlines that the light we see from the Sun left its surface 8 minutes ago, and the light from our nearest galaxy, Andromeda, is 2.5 million years old. The Hubble Ultra Deep Field space ...